Hi, the name's Steffen and I'm writing about the Web, programming
and all those things coming to my mind. Enjoy your stay.Trackback Spam
My blog has been bombed by hunderts of trackback spams the last 2 hours. And I’m not the only one as I figured out via Technorati, there’s for example Twig, Beau, Avery, and bronzefinger having the same problem.
I’ve investigated my log files a bit and the requests are all coming from different IP addresses all over the world. So I guess it is some sort of spy-ware/trojan/virus that got installed on all those computers. It is interresting that the browser IDs in the request are always “real” browsers, and are different with every request, e.g. “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)”, “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; SAFEXPLORER TL)”, “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Mac_PowerPC)”, “”Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; iOpus-I-M)” - always MSIE… That could be a trick, or that could mean, that the trojan is installed in Internet Explorer (whereas this would be hard to do for version 4 to 6 and even on Mac OS…).
And I’m asking myself: is it possible that these requests, though distributed over the whole world, are coordinated? Well, I’m curious what the virus companies / computer news tickers / you say about this topic the next few hours and days.